Eavan Murray Western Correspondent
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  • Irish Independent

Eavan Murray is a Western Correspondent for the Irish Independent.

482 Articles
almost 2 years
independent.ie

Company linked to billionaire John Magnier seeks to build hotel on southern slope of The Rock of ...

A planning application to build a hotel on the southern slope of The Rock of Cashel has been roundly condemned.

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almost 2 years
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More than half of nine-year-olds now own a phone – and they play and read less

A national survey has found 54pc of nine-year-olds have their own mobile phone, a significant increase in the last de...

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almost 2 years
independent.ie

Beloved Patrick Kavanagh bench inspires seated Virginia Woolf statue by River Thames

THE statue of Patrick Kavanagh sitting thoughtfully on a bench by the Grand Canal has offered a sympathetic, non-judg...

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almost 2 years
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‘Rude’ and ‘aggressive’ nurse kicked colleague in her back, fitness-to-practise inquiry told

A nurse accused of kicking a senior colleague in the small of her back during work in a major hospital is facing a fi...

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almost 2 years
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Nursing director told boss he needed time off to look after ill dad ‘but instead went to Saudi Ar...

A former senior nursing director is before a fitness-to-practice inquiry over claims he forged a reference and falsel...

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almost 2 years
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‘Everything was over in a moment’: friends grieve for Kurdish family killed in Galway motorway tr...

The deaths of a Kurdish couple and their baby in a horrific motorway crash in Co Galway last year has cast a long sha...

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almost 2 years
independent.ie

Family wiped out after mentally ill man drove wrong way down motorway, inquest hears

Lina Sabah was born the week before Christmas in 2020.

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almost 2 years
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Family-of-three were wiped out in horrific motorway crash after mentally-ill man ploughed into th...

A young Kurdish family were killed in a horrific collision when a man diagnosed with psychosis drove erratically on t...

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almost 2 years
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Four victims of Creeslough, Donegal explosion are named locally as a nation grieves

Ten people have been confirmed dead in the explosion that left a Donegal village engulfed by a “tsunami of grief”.

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almost 2 years
independent.ie

'First came the blast, then the silence… The story of how Creeslough in Donegal became the epicen...

It was a typically busy Friday afternoon in Lafferty’s supermarket in Creeslough.

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almost 2 years
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Four victims of Creeslough, Donegal explosion are named locally as a nation grieves

Gardaí have confirmed the names of the 10 victims who were killed in an explosion at a local petrol station in Creesl...

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almost 2 years
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Donegal explosion: Young girl and two teenagers among 10 confirmed dead in Creeslough tragedy

A young girl, two teenagers, four men and three women are among the dead as gardai confirmed 10 fatalities after an e...

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